From:	stefan_trcek AT abas DOT de (Stefan Trcek)
Subject:	Re: Any opinions of tar and gzip vs. pkzip? also any major problems in tar?
22 Jan 1997 18:16:55 -0800 :
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Justin Gordon wrote:
> 
> Thanks for any opinions.

pkzip and any other dos/windows packer can extract files without
extracting the archive (e.g. the readme).  tar/gzip are uncomfortable
and time consuming in this case.

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Stefan Trcek
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